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Open-access to scholarly research has been very topical the past few years. The internet as a means of communication and distribution seems to have led down to paths, increasingly divergent: either academic journals are going open-access, allowing anyone
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It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel . In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting
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Michael Wesch and his 200 students in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007 collaborated in exploring what exactly a student does these days. Their results make a fascinating video and a timely reminder
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As readers of my main blog will know , I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing
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Yesterday, Karen called me a geek. She's right; but I suspect a fair few postgrad bloggers are in the geekerly way, too, but: can you prove it? Here's evidence of my uber-geekery... If you've got the same tool , can you out-geek me? :)
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Warning: Segue into politics and digital communication... What is Facebook? Should you care? Does the fact that John Howard and Kevin Rudd (or their team) have Facebook pages mean anything about Australian politics in a digital era? If any of these questions
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Given that Robyn's been sharing her heightened enthusiasm for various eResearch tools and David's been talking about some of the eResearch (or, at least, digital communication about eResearch) options already available , I thought I'd throw in an idea
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Australia's QUT has been in the grip of a very public controversy recently which dovetails between issues of freedom of speech, academic ethics and the transparency of university processes. The controversy came to light and media attention on 11 April
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Another interesting video about Net Neutrality: [Click the image to open a new window with the video embedded.] This one's a little more fun, but still does a good job explaining why Net Neutrality matters (in just over 3 minutes, this time!) [ Via Sivacracy
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If you're interested in Net Neutrality , then check out this evocative mini-documentary on why regulating the internet in the ways being debate in the US are a bad idea of democracy, a bad idea for the US, and a really bad idea for the rest of us! Save
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In exploring the role of participatory media forms in higher eduction, media scholar Henry Jenkins recently penned an article entitled " From YouTube to YouNiversity " for the Chronicle of Higher Education . It's a great read, but this passage particularly
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This YouTube clip does a pretty good job of explaining it ... [Via Jill ]
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